TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE R.S.D.L.P.

Written:Written in GenevaPublished:First published in 1926 inLenin Miscellany V.

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October 25, 1905

DearFriends,

Ihave just received your letter about my appointment
to the International
Bureau[1](it is a pity that you did not
appoint Orlovsky, but we can discuss that when we meet)
and about a meeting at Odessa (Berlin). It is essential to
have a meeting as soon as possible. Instead of Odessa, I
can suggest Warsaw
(Königsberg)[2]—all the conditions are
the same, but it’s nearer and more unexpected for the
police. In the latter place all could be ready for you infour
days, given the best possible conditions (a legal passport),
on which I advise you to begin working energetically at
once. Given worse conditions, the period is still very short,
and it would be a good thing, if possible, to increase the
number of participants. If you decide on an unfamiliar
city (Königsberg is 22 hours from St. Petersburg) the
meeting could be appointed in a cafe, hotel, or tavern, with the
aid of a guide-book.

Iam writing this very day to the I. Bureau for
information about the conference and its date; directly I receive
the reply, I will forward it to you. Please hurry with our
meeting, regardless even of the conference with the I. 
Bureau.

Wereminutes taken at the inter-Party conference? If they
were, send them to us without fail.

[1]InternationalSocialist Bureau—the executive organ of the Second
International, was established by decision of the Paris Congressof 1900. Lenin was a member of the Bureau from 1905 to 1912 as
a representative of the R.S.D.L.P.

[2]Forreasons of secrecy Berlin was called Odessa, and Königsberg—
Warsaw.

Furtheron, the reference is to the general meeting of C.C. and
C.O. members with Lenin, which is also mentioned in his letter
of October 5, 1905 (see present edition, Vol. 34, pp. 348–49).